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If it is the smell I am thinking of, it reminds me of cigar boxes from the 70’s. 😀And don’t listen to them, it is a fantastic firewood if it’s free😀

I concerned for the person in the background who has by the looks of it been hung, you are wearing meat processing gloves, this is beginning to look like a scene from Fargo😀

I’m a Charnwood fan, made in UK.

Posted a pic of this before, made from and old sleeper and some old fence stabs. Only use it when I have loads of limbs like that to cut, usually cut the limb with it sitting on top of other chopped logs.

Unless it’s a horrendous recovery to get it to where you are processing it then it is well worth the effort. As I said I burn a lot of willow and it has certainly kept me warm for many a year.

Sycamore is a very good fire wood, I burn a lot of it, by coincidence I also burn a lot of willow, not as good but because the price is right (free) they are both fantastic. Of course split and stack and leave for a year to dry out.

I’m not a professional chainsaw user but have been regularly using one for over 20 years, to me that chain is too tight oil looks good. But is it bar oil it looks more like old engine oil.😀

Them chain teeth look blunt when I zoom in

Is the chain too tight? is the oiler working? Hold the nose of the bar close to something clean, rev it and see if you get a spray of oil mark against the said clean log or bit of paper etc. Is the chain nice and sharp, if not it will overheat in the cut and just make some sawdust instead of nice shavings.

I lost the top of my thumb as a teenager with an axe and my nephew lost the top of one of his fingers when he was a young lad due to an incident with a heavy door so whenever we see each other we take great delight in saying “high 4 1/2” to each other, oh the little things in life that make you smile.

That’s going to nip, speedy recovery

If it is that far gone then it sounds like it has become one with nature anyway especially at the bottom of your pile, perhaps if anything just lift / wrestle the top uncomposted stuff of the top to burn. As said hard to tell without a pic.

Nowt more than a pair of gloves, you know we are right, don’t just torch the pile it either needs left for nature or moved.

I regularly leave piles of brash, some of them get left to the nature gods some of them I burn depending on location. The burn ones are usually left about 6 to 12 months to dry out. As mentioned in the thread I start a fire about 2 meters away from the brash pile usually on an old pallet and just hand ball the stuff across, my brash piles are big but you can rattle through them in a couple of hours, the worst bit is the smoke chasing you around trying to sting your eyes. PS don’t wear your good fleece as it will be covered in spark holes by the end of it. We have hedgehogs and there is no way I would just torch one of the piles without moving it.

Look at it as a brunch, so you can go light on your real lunch, I was and still am happy for food to be put down in front of me, and that brekkie did look good😀